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You can build clean sections all day, but aligning elements across every screen size can start to feel more like trial and error than intentional design. Flexbox fixes that. It gives you real control over how elements sit, stretch, shrink, and wrap inside a container, without constant adjusting of...
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In web design, even the simplest decisions can multiply. What starts as a single design choice quickly expands into dozens of visual variations for interactions, backgrounds, borders, and more. Your build can become cluttered with mismatched values and manual tweaks without a consistent...
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Divi 5 introduces a handful of smart new tools to help you work faster and design more freely. But with so much power at your fingertips, it’s easy to feel unsure about where to start, especially when updating an existing layout. You probably already know how to tweak spacing, adjust colors, and...
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Making design updates shouldn’t feel like checking boxes. But too often, even something simple, like changing a button style or updating a font, means editing each module manually. It’s slow, repetitive, and easy to mess up. Divi 5 fixes that with Extend Attributes, an upgraded version of Divi...
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Choosing the right CSS units is more than a technical detail. It’s what helps your design stay consistent, flexible, and responsive across all devices. Pixels may seem like the easy option, but they don’t always behave predictably on different screens. In this post, we’ll explain...
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You’ve probably seen various CSS units in web code before, but understanding how they work lets you use them more intentionally. In this post, you’ll learn what CSS units really are, how they affect your layouts, and how using them inside Divi 5 helps you design more responsively. Divi 5 brings...
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CSS variables are like reusable design ingredients. You define them once, as your brand colors, font sizes, or spacing, and then use them wherever needed. They save you from typing the same hex codes and pixel values across different sections. Their biggest benefit is how easy they are to update....
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Some CSS functions are powerful but rarely used, not because they’re difficult, but because easier alternatives are available. Calc() is one of them. It’s super useful but often overshadowed by clamp(). Calc() solves some layout problems that clamp() can’t touch. It’s great for...
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Web design is all about creating consistent, scalable websites with less effort. Design Variables can transform how designers work across multiple web design tools, from Figma to our own Divi. In this post, we’ll explore how variables streamline workflows, ensure brand cohesion, and...
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Typography can make or break your website before visitors even read your content. When someone lands on your page, poor font choices instantly raise red flags to your visitors before they even start reading the words themselves. Most designers hate dealing with website fonts. Their builder makes...
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If you’ve ever tried building an image gallery manually, you know how quickly things get messy. Uneven images, misaligned rows, and unresponsive designs turn a simple gallery into a layout nightmare. Even in Divi 4, complex image structures often meant stacking multiple rows and specialty...
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Your design looks almost right, but something feels off. The spacing seems awkward. The proportions don’t work. You adjust margins and padding, but that nagging sense of imbalance remains. The missing piece might be the golden ratio. This mathematical principle has guided great design for...
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